Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time.

Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the read more

Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being.

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be coming read more

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be coming up it.

A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason.

A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason.

Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head.

Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head.

Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem.

Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem.